Intellectual Property Rights : A Legal and Economic Investigation

The legal system induces the economic system, and legal norms have to be assessed in ways that lead to the most competent outcome. National competition laws can converge towards some common points and standards, and as a consequence, there is an effort for competition law enforcement to become extra-territorial over the years because there is a need to internationalize competition law. A constant development of the legal regulation and enforcement of IPRs means a need for continuous revision of an index (zekipr6/zekipr7/zekipr8/zekipr9, zekpat6, zekcopy6, zekmark6) regarding the protection of patents, copyrights, trademarks and in general IPRs. The analysis presented in this paper is focused on the investigation of the developments of law utilized to produce the indexes and the examination of the impact of IPRs' protection as it is expressed by our indexes upon FDI